Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-05

bank reserve cities, and to allow part of
the reserve to be kept in cities other
than New York: for the relief of settlers on
public lands in Kansas and Nebraska; to pro-
vide for bringing suits against the govern
ment; TO increase the limit OF the cost of pub.
lie buildings at Peoria and keokuk, Ia. Tor
| the completion OF the Improvement OF the
! public buildings at Des Molnes la.
| Forty house joint resolutions became laws,
! the princlpal ones being as follows: ID rect
| ing the commissioner of labor to max Q nves-
| president to protect American fishing and
trading vessels and American fishermen in
Canadian waters (senate retaliation bilD; ;
methods and accounts of the Pacific railroads.
-. OF the total number of bills which passed
the senate $40 became laws, including l15 of
a public aud eo5 of strictly private ma;
the more important. senate bills placed
on the statute books by the present
congress: The presidential succession bill,
upon members OF the cabinet in the event of
a vacancy in the Office of president and vice
president; the Cullom-Reagan bill to regu-
late interstate commerce; for the retire.
electoral count bill; for the allotment of
lands in seyeralty to Indians and extending
the protection of the laws to the Indians OF
t.e yarioas RESERVATIONS to rSneai ine tenure
alton for militia; to establish agricultural ex-
pertinent stations; for the study of the
effects of narcotics and intoxicants in the
public schools; to legalize the Incorporation
Of trades unions; authorizing the transmits.
sion of weather reports through the mails
free, of postage; to increase the pension for
the loss Of an arm or leg; to indemnify the
Springs, Wyo., riot; for the relief Of Texas,
Colorado. Oregon, Nebraska, California,
Kansas, Washington territory and Idaho; au-
thOrzng the sale of certain government
property in Chicago; to relieve the charge of
desertion from the records of soldiers who re-
enlisted without having received discharges
on account Of their first enlistment; to estab
| lish two additional land districts in Me-
| braska; to amend the laws relating to pat
ents trademarks, and copyrights; to author
| iZe the postmaster general to allow compen-
sation for railroad apartment car service fur
nished pursuant to agreement; to bridge the
Mississippi river at st. Louis; to allow recev-
ers of national banks to buy in trust property
on the approval of the comptroller of the cur
tho Ghess fEF ress s of aT
1880, (it prohibits the importation of opium
into either country by the citizens Of the
othsr} for the erection W,c of public building
OF the foregoing measures seven became
laws by expiration OF the constitutional ten
days Limitation, viz: The mormon polyg-
amy bill; the trade dollar population bill !;
the militia bill and four private bills.
The senate bills vetoed were 80 in number,
II being of public and 2S of private char
acter. The public bills vetoed were as fol-
| lOWS. louulct tltlo vi oclIlcIS Ou Ihe ICES
Moines river lands (passed over the veto in
the senate, but failed of the necessary two
thirds In the house) for the erection of pub
lie buildings at Zanesyille, O., Lafayette
oyer the veto in both houses), and Lynn,
Mass; to extend the provisions Of the i'm
mediate Transportation act to Omaha, Neb. {;
Indian reservations sin in northern Montana. '
The SO house bills vetoed included 81 private
bills and 6 bills of a public nature. The pub.
lie bills vetoed were for the erection of federal
Asherville, N. e., and Portsmouth, o., to
distribute $4,000 worth of seeds among the
drought-stricken people. of Texas, and to
pendent relatives of deceased soldiers. (An
effort made to pass the dependent pension
bill owl the veto failed)
Ihe regular appropriation bills which
bill, for both congresses; the river and har-
not not signed BY the presidsntS' and d the de- de-
fciency bill, on which the conference report
was not submitted in time for action. The
failure Of the Notifications bill was due to de-
cided differences of opinion between the con-
ferees of the two houses.
Fifty bills, In addition to those which be-
| came laws and those vetoed, were sent to
the president but were pocketed by him on
the adjournment OF congress and therefore
failed: The most important are as follows:
ment of convict and alien labor on public
works: the O'Nelll labor arbitration bill for
the settlement OF controversies between in.
Morrison surplus resolution. Bills estab.
fishing additional aids to navigation at the
mouth OF the Mississippi and fOrfeiting tho
land grant to . railroad from Oct0nagen to
the Wisconsin state line also failed In con-
ference, while the bill to create o department
of agriculture and labor was killed by the in
ability of its friends to send it to confer
hOnt iEi hills and ioint resolutions ubich
passed the house failed of action in the
senate. some of which, however, were de-
feated by adverse committee reports. About
$50 bills passed by the senate failed of pas
sage In the house. The CamerUn-Hale twin
bills appropriating S35 900, 900 for the increase
of the navy were sent to the naval committee
and died there although provision for add;
appropriation bill. The twin Notifications
bills which passed the senate were allowed
to sleep in the house approximations commit
slumbers on the house calendar. The bill fol
the admission of Washington territory failed
of action, as did the bill to grant Dearborn
park to the city of Chicago.
portance failed of action of an affirmative
nature in either house: The Morrison and
other tariff bills which the house, oil a test
on ont the silver question; to establish Uniform
The Oklohoma bill, and the Dunn free shit
Dill, were all reported from the mouse com
mittees and all failed to get beyond the stage
of general debate. The bills to repeal the
civil service law and to grant woman suffrage
were killed In the house by adverse commit
tee reports, and IN the senate by adverse
test votes. A resolution favOring open ex
ecutive sessions was defeated in the senate
Owing to the failure of the deficiency bill
the recent act of congress extending the fret
delivery system to cities and towns having
not less than 10000 inhabitants, or pOsta
revenue of not iess than $1,000. becomes in
operative until the beginning of the mex
fiscal year, when the regular appropriation
act goes into effect
A Very Bad Failure.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-The effect of tn
, failure of the deficiency bill will be NOR
serious than is generally belived, inasmucl
rs it contained provisions for supplying
pressing demands for postal cards, stamp
and other items connected with the posta
service, the denial of which will. 1t is ex
pected, seriously embarrass the department
and the public. The legal machinery OF thu
government will be materially dsarranget
during the remainder of the fiscal year, also
as no money will be available for jurors, wit
nesses' or marshals' fees, and many prison
ers cannot be tried for months to come. 4
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